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canesisters
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I lost Birdie today.
She was Fine last Tues.
Wed evening she had a slight limp when I let her out of the kennel. Not an unusual thing for her. I treated a broken nail & forgot about it.
Thurs AM she didn't want her breakfast at first & was still sore.... but ate when I put it in the kennel with her. That evening she was listless, just laying at the kennel gate. I let her out & her shoulder was swollen & drooping, her leg was swollen & her paw was knuckling over and there was some edema around her elbow & arm pit.
We went to the vet Fri AM.
No temp. No break. No dislocation. Pitting edema spreading along her side. Left with antibiotics, pred & a diuretic. Fri PM she was still refusing food & vomited the pills.
Sat ... still couldn't get any food in her & couldn't get her to keep the pills down. She even vomited water if I let her have unrestricted access.
Sun the edema was spreading, she would gag if I even offered her food (warm chicken & rice). I gave up trying to give her meds & focused on trying to get her to keep water down. She could keep down about a cup of water/ pedialyte with a handful of ice cubes at a time.
Monday she was needing help getting up, navigating the steps to the yard & back. Still no food, no meds. Keeping down a crushed pepto tablet w/honey & water. Getting limited water & ice hourly.
I had an appt for Wed to recheck the leg... but couldn't wait another day. I got permission to take off this morning.
The edema covered her whole left side. She could barely use her front leg & was having trouble with her rear legs. Her breathing was labored. Her urine was brown & somehow was far exceeding what she was taking in.
He advised that with her history (the tumor back in Feb), being a senior boxer, the way this went from nonexistent to life threatening in less than a week..... that we could hospitalize her (with her fear of confinement & being alone) & run tests for days.... but in his opinion that would only give me a name for what he felt would end up being an aggressively spreading growth of some sort in her chest/abdomen.
The whole house is heartbroken.
She was Fine last Tues.
Wed evening she had a slight limp when I let her out of the kennel. Not an unusual thing for her. I treated a broken nail & forgot about it.
Thurs AM she didn't want her breakfast at first & was still sore.... but ate when I put it in the kennel with her. That evening she was listless, just laying at the kennel gate. I let her out & her shoulder was swollen & drooping, her leg was swollen & her paw was knuckling over and there was some edema around her elbow & arm pit.
We went to the vet Fri AM.
No temp. No break. No dislocation. Pitting edema spreading along her side. Left with antibiotics, pred & a diuretic. Fri PM she was still refusing food & vomited the pills.
Sat ... still couldn't get any food in her & couldn't get her to keep the pills down. She even vomited water if I let her have unrestricted access.
Sun the edema was spreading, she would gag if I even offered her food (warm chicken & rice). I gave up trying to give her meds & focused on trying to get her to keep water down. She could keep down about a cup of water/ pedialyte with a handful of ice cubes at a time.
Monday she was needing help getting up, navigating the steps to the yard & back. Still no food, no meds. Keeping down a crushed pepto tablet w/honey & water. Getting limited water & ice hourly.
I had an appt for Wed to recheck the leg... but couldn't wait another day. I got permission to take off this morning.
The edema covered her whole left side. She could barely use her front leg & was having trouble with her rear legs. Her breathing was labored. Her urine was brown & somehow was far exceeding what she was taking in.
He advised that with her history (the tumor back in Feb), being a senior boxer, the way this went from nonexistent to life threatening in less than a week..... that we could hospitalize her (with her fear of confinement & being alone) & run tests for days.... but in his opinion that would only give me a name for what he felt would end up being an aggressively spreading growth of some sort in her chest/abdomen.
The whole house is heartbroken.
it always comes at the worse times, never what we want. I'm glad for the times you two were able to share the love with one another.
